Why do people drink alcohol?

Well, at first glance, reading it in my head sounded kind of funny. So then I said it out loud 3 times, seriatim with progressively more emphasis and volume.
Then I had some feelings that I can't really communicate.
I dunno.

 

But I don't get it??? I've had the same thing said to me at work.

 

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You have to admit that alcohol makes people more honest about their emotions. It breaks people down to a more primitive state of consciousness and allows emotions and actions to flow more freely.

 

Seriously, this is essentially basic fact and one of the main reasons people have drank for the past 3,000 years.

 

Again I post this link:
http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/03_03/03-03_zen_drinking_alone.htm

What's really up with the boozeahol.

 

You know, the phenomenon of language is really a fascinating thing. It allows people to communicate on a level playing field and almost fully understand what the other party truly means, provided they are being sincere.
If you want to backpedal that's fine with me, but what you said and it's meaning were clearly defined based on how the majority of people speak English.
And even if you were associating anti-social behavior with alcohol, your point still makes zero sense. Millions of people use alcohol as a social lubricant, and an even greater number exclusively drink alcohol in a social setting.

I don't watch Dr Phil at all, and if I were to drink a shoulder of vodka I'd still be sitting here communicating with you in the same fashion. I don't have many latent, repressed anger issues and sexual frustration that I only let out through alcohol abuse. My demons are always in lit up and so I don't act out like an enraged monkey when I get wasted.
The way alcohol affects the user is extremely personalized. There are very basic biological similarities (lack of coordination, slower reaction time, decreased cognitive function) but as far as behavior goes, it's up to the drinker and not the drink.

 

It must just be a Northeastern thing.

 

I do agree with that to a certain extent, but when people go over the top and get completely pissed they say and do things they would never dream of while sober. There used to be a slogan over here; "know the one that's one too many".And in a society where the majority of people measure each other by how much they can drink before they puke or pass out, people tend to drink too much and everything goes wrong...

 

People drink a lot of alcohol to get fucked up. The same reason I smoke a lot of pot, lol

 

Actually I don't drink to get fucked up. I drink to become me. When I'm fucked up I become the better version of me, i.e. TheMadcapSyd version 2.0

 

So- alcohol is sort of a temporary software update for you? Funny how it sometimes forces a shutdown and reboot in order to uninstall -eh?

 

/thread
the truth will set you free

 

Alcohol is a factor in most of the anti-social behavior I have seen in my lifetime, that makes perfect sense. Of course it can be used in a social setting too, I never denied that. You're saying that alcohol does not have any part to play in the crap that myself and many others in my area have to put up with every night. Well you're wrong. My country is not full of angry, sexually frustrated, repressed people, but drinking heavily is unfortunately a big part my culture (something YOU will never understand). Heavy BINGE drinking turns many people into rowdy idiots, that is what's happening every day, there is no two ways about it, no deeper bullshit meaning behind it all, just people drinking more than they can handle. (I have done it myself a few times)

I seriously doubt that

 

Well I mean all the time after.....errr, I mean some of the times after drinking the software is bound to crash, but eating my world class eggs reboots it back to exactly where it was the night before.

 

Alcohol always used to hit me as a temporary downgrade.... sometimes a significant one. Fortunately those effects wore off within a day or so...

 

I agree in someways.
But it's also an upgrade for me in the sense that I become more receptive of information, more accepting of others, more honest with my own being, and more creatively imaginative.

 

I can't completely dismiss the notion that there were elements of creative improvement from drinking but I'd tend to think it was the result of something along the lines of inhibitions going away... My internal dialog changes when the gray matter is pickling in C2H5OH rich blood... not really for the better- and I am less receptive of new ideas and information. The net effect in retrospect is decidedly a downgrade in my case.

A bit wide open, the topic... as though a single response is going to address why everyone drinks. I suppose part of the answer lies in what effect it has on us. I think its effect on me is a huge component of why I drink very little- so conversely, my answer is to the question, "Why don't I drink alcohol?".

 

I drink to let loose and get fucked up - plus I'm a happy drunk and I love everyone.

 

That's not good, sorry. You should be able to be yourself without drinking alcohol.

I drink to my limit, which is often quite pissed. I rarely act badly though, I a 'fall asleep' kind of drunk, which is probably a benefit in the long run